Hawaiian Historical Legends, A Viking of the Pacific, sentence 52
The South Pacific islanders called their servants, or laborers, the Manahune people.
Who acts: Pacific islanders · What happens: call · To what, where: servants · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, A Viking of the Pacific. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pacific islanders), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 islanders | det |
| 2 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Pacific | compound |
| 3 | Pacific | Pacific | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 islanders | compound |
| 4 | islanders | islander | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 called | nsubj |
| 5 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 servants | nmod:poss |
| 7 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 called | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 laborers | punct |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 laborers | cc |
| 10 | laborers | laborer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 called | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 people | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 people | det |
| 13 | Manahune | Manahune | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 people | compound |
| 14 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 laborers | appos |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past | the Pacific islanders | islanders's servants | laborers xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent servant=Recipient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Project Gutenberg book 66357 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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